Hilltopper basketball coach, all-time girls' scorer make Durfee a part of their wedding day

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Jul 8, 2017 at 2:43 PMJul 9, 2017 at 2:23 PM

There is no question B.M.C. Durfee High School plays a big role in the lives of Jameson Guimond and Bethany Plasski.

Mike Thomas Herald News Sports Editor

FALL RIVER – There is no question B.M.C. Durfee High School plays a big role in the lives of Jameson Guimond and Bethany Plasski.

Guimond, who will be entering his fifth season as the Hilltoppers boys’ basketball coach, is a 1998 graduate of Durfee, while Plasski re-wrote the record books as a 2005 graduate when she left as the girls’ basketball all-time leading scorer with 1,776 points.

The two met at Durfee, where Plasski is a guidance counselor and Guimond a physical education teacher and began dating in Guimond’s first season as basketball coach.

On Saturday, the two were married and the couple decided Durfee needed to play a role in their big day.

After the noon ceremony at Holy Name Church, the bride, groom and wedding party made their way into the Luke Urban Field House around 1:30 p.m. and the newlyweds, along with the wedding party, posed for photos on the Thomas 'Skip' Karam Basketball Court.

For the Guimonds, Durfee is a special place and it meant a lot to both of them to take 15 minutes out of the day and spend it at a place that holds so many memories.

“There is such a big place in our hearts for Durfee,” said Guimond, who led the Hilltoppers in scoring in both his junior and senior seasons. “We both went there, played basketball there. She’s got the better basketball career than I do.

“It’s something we really wanted to do. We wanted to incorporate this into what a lot of people say is the biggest day of their lives.”

For the bride, the decision to head to Durfee in the middle of her big day was an easy one.

“It was a mutual decision,” she said. “We met with the photographer and he asked if there were any special places we would like to go for pictures and we were both like, Durfee.”

The plan was to take a couple of staged basketball pictures on the court, but with the basketballs locked up and with no key to get at them, the party winged it and posed for photos under the banner that displays Plasski's name, at halfcourt and under the basket.

Although there wasn’t an all-out basketball game played at Durfee on Saturday, Plasski was asked if she and Guimond were to go head to head on the court now, who would win?

“That’s a tough one,” she said. “He’s stronger than I am, but I guess it would depend if my 3-point shot was on.”

Mike Thomas is the sports editor of The Herald News. Follow him on Twitter @NostraThomasHN